Episode 66: Agile Coaching with Lyssa Adkins and Michael Spayd

11/02/201405/01/2021 / Craig Smith / Leave a comment

At YOW 2013 in Sydney, Craig, Renee and Jeremie Benazra catch up with Lyssa Adkins, author of “Coaching Agile Teams” and Michael Spayd, both Agile Coaches at the Agile Coaching Institute and chew the fat on:

What is Agile?
Lyssa’s “Coaching Agile Teams” book
The difficulties in being an Agile Coach
The XP Coach
Coaching as a more mature version of leadership
Where professional coaching fits into Agile Coaching
Why Agile Coaches are sought after whereas general organisational coaching is less prevalent
The training of managers and its impact on mindsets
Michael’s “Coaching the Agile Enterprise” book
Team coaches vs enterprise coaches – what is the difference
Scrum Mastering an enterprise transformation
ICAgile
How to teach a pig to sing
The coaching oath of non-allegiance
Certified Scrum Coach versus ICAgile Coach
The myriad of skill sets needed as an Agile Coach
Agile…

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Episode 58: Don’t Drink and Podcast!

23/06/201305/01/2021 / Craig Smith / Leave a comment

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Craig and Renee are in Sydney and dangerously podcast after Renee’s one (1) drink and Craig’s two (2) drinks. Along the way they fumble over the following topics:

Agile Sydney meetup – Agile 101
Build Your Own Manifesto and Adam Weisbart’s Build Your Own Manifesto (and my Interview with Adam Weisbart at Agile 2012 in case you missed it)
Wordle – awesome word cloud generation tool
Agile observations from Dave Thomas (not Dave Thomas)
YOW! Lambda Jam and Lambda Jam and the buzz around functional programming
Emergent Design
Mike Cohn on “Hard to Read Handwriting is Best for User Stories” (and the associated research)
Craig’s notes from Tech Connect 2013 in Brisbane
Startup Metrics for Pirates (AARRR)
When would you pick waterfall over agile (…we think you know the answer!)
DWP drops agile from flagship government software project
New book Commitment from Chris Matts and Olav Maassen has…

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Episode 57: No, No, Noooo!

25/05/201305/01/2021 / Craig Smith / Leave a comment

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Tony, Renee and Craig meet in sunny suburban Sandgate and have an intense debate about the world of Agile while dealing with the 4:01 to Shorncliffe and beeping out Tony’s references to seagulls and respect.

Agile coaching is more about building the capacity of people and high performing teams rather than processes, the Situational Leadership Model, Shu Ha Ri and pragmatic coaching
No estimates – Purpose Of Estimation by Martin Fowler, The NoEstimates Movement by Ron Jeffries, numerous posts and an Agile Business Analysts Meetup by Neil Killick and numerous posts by Woody Zuill
Inspirational speaker Peter Williams from Deloitte
No prioritisation and no product owner movements
The Costs of Ignoring Employee Engagement
2012 Version One State of Agile Survey as well as Renee’s blog and Craig’s InfoQ post on the survey
Al Shalloway – Why I am No Longer With Lean-Kanban University
No videos from LKNA
Australian startup

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Episode 56: Scrum Australia plus a Hint of Peas & Apples

15/04/201305/01/2021 / Craig Smith / Leave a comment

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Craig and Renee rendezvous in Sydney for Scrum Australia and clear the backlog for a way overdue podcast. Whilst Craig battled a cold and Renee a fit of giggles, they discussed:

Highlights from the inaugural Scrum Australia in Sydney
LAST Conference 2013 in Melbourne is now accepting submissions
Kenny Rubin’s presentations at Scrum Australia, his book Essential Scrum and his Visual AGILExicon
Clark & Wheelwright study (1993) on Multitasking
Complexity Thinking by Anton Rossouw and some of the models
RubyConf Australia 2013
Kim Ballestrin is off to LKNA!
New certifications such as Kanban Coaching Professional and Disciplined Agile Certification
Every Employee Should Work From Home (David Heinemeier Hansson on Forbes) http://www.forbes.com/sites/danschawbel/2013/03/29/david-heinemeier-hansson-every-employee-should-work-from-home/
WIP Limits by Conversation (Pawel Brodzinski) – http://brodzinski.com/2013/03/wip-limits-by-conversation.html
Scaled Agile Framework
Dinosaur Train
The Insufficiency of Scrum is a Fallacy – http://agile.dzone.com/articles/insufficiency-scrum-fallacy
Amazon Acquires Goodreads: World’s Biggest Online Retailer Acquires Beloved Book Site – http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/03/28/amazon-acquires-goodreads_n_2974572.html
Renee has been…

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Episode 55: YOW! 2012 with Zach Holman

31/12/201205/01/2021 / Craig Smith / Leave a comment

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Our last YOW! 2012 interview, Craig and Renee have a talk to Zach Holman (@holman) from Github and chat about:

The open source model – what is it?
Meeting hate crimes
Scaling organisational size
Culture spreading outside of programming
Being agile without being Agile
Being enabled to make change
Hack houses
Working less makes better code
Internal value adding tools
Innovation and 20% time
The challenge of working in teams

Thankyou to the YOW! 2012 conference for inviting The Agile Revolution to record podcast interviews at the conference!

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Episode 53: Merry Xmas Mumbles

20/12/201205/01/2021 / Craig Smith / Leave a comment

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In this episode Tony, Craig and Renee once again meet in a dingy (and occasionally slightly noisy) cafe and discuss:

The Agile Alphabet (Koti Reddy Bhavanam)
The Agile Pocket Guide is released by Peter Saddington (@agileScout)
An Alternative to Agile Coaching (Phil Abernathy)
Agile Australia 2013 is now open for speaker submissions!
Agile 2013 in Nashville is now open too for submissions!

Quotes:

"True leadership is leading without selfish attachment." ~ Bhagavad Gita (3000BC) | Servant- or Host Leadership?
— Bob "The Disruptor" Marshall ♥️💎 (@flowchainsensei) June 1, 2012

https://twitter.com/CFOAmerica/status/151739448269344768

It's not deliver so fast that marketing doesn't have a chance to change their mind but deliver so fast that they don't have to #yow2012
— Jason Yip (@jchyip@mastodon.online) (@jchyip) December 7, 2012

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Episode 52: YOW! 2012 Retrospectives with Aino Vonge Corry

17/12/201205/01/2021 / Craig Smith / Leave a comment

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In this episode Craig and Renee talk to Aino Vonge Corry (@apaipi) at YOW! 2012 and discuss:

Retrospectives
Design patterns
Trojan retrospectives
Enterprise retrospective patterns
Retrospective facilitators – part of the team?
Distributed retrospectives (and a plug for Linoit)
The importance of acknowledging success and learning
Women in IT

Thankyou to the YOW! 2012 conference for inviting The Agile Revolution to record podcast interviews at the conference!

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Episode 50: YOW! 2012 Day 1 Wrap Up

12/12/201205/01/2021 / Craig Smith / Leave a comment

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Craig, Renee and Peter Sellars (from Auckland, New Zealand) talk about their first day at the YOW! 2012 Software Developer Conference, chatting about the speakers that they listened to and their thoughts on them including:

Don Reinersten‘s “The Practical Science of Batch Size”
Fred George‘s “Programmer Anarchy”
Dan North‘s “Embracing Uncertainty”
Aino Vonge Corry‘s “Retrospectives, Who Needs Them, Anyway?”
Marko Rodriguez‘s “Big Data”
Michael Nygard‘s “Architecture and Design”
John-Henry Harris‘ “Design and Innovation at the LEGO Group”
Jeff Patton‘s “Co-making Great Products”; and
Mike Lee‘s “The Most Important Minute of Your Life”

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Episode 49: Merry Manifesto Madness with Alistair Cockburn

14/11/201205/01/2021 / Craig Smith / Leave a comment

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Craig and Renee lob around to Tony’ abode to interview his house guest, Alistair Cockburn. Alistair spends time:

denying a K Stew affair
answering what brings him to Australia
plugging his fantastic Advanced Agile Course
presenting his thoughts on where Agile is going
answering how the Agile Manifesto has shifted and whether the last line should be shifted earlier
talking about the simplicity principle
explaining the difficulty of Agile Organisational transformations
answering whether transformation that succeed better can be big-bang or have to evolve
discussing the sticky middle management layer where transformations become hard
ponderings on what is happening in the ICAgile space
generally taking the p*ss out of Renee, Tony and Craig

You can contact Alistair Cockburn for any work opportunities or Advanced Agile Training on totheralistair@gmail.com or totheralistair@aol.com.

You can contact Renee for any work opportunities or Agile 101 Training at renee@theagilerevolution.com.

Special thanks…

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Episode 44: Typhoid Tony

30/08/201205/01/2021 / Craig Smith / Leave a comment

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Craig, Renee and a little bit of Tony continue on their Agile journey covering…

Sponsume’s Agile in a Can (Jim Benson)
Is Publishing ready for Agile (Gabe Habash at Publisher’s Weekly)
Sh*t Bad Scrum Masters Say (Adam Weisbart)
Why Software Development Methodologies Suck (Jez Humble on DZone)
Renee’s Gamification and Agile presentation at LAST Conference Melbourne
PMI’s Pulse of the Profession 2012 Survey
Capability growing in core skills – is that the responsibility of Agile?

Quotes:

One of the first thing an #Agile coach shld be explaining to mgmnt – we will not be tracking things in a tool, we'll be too busy doing stuff
— Neil Killick (@neil_killick) July 15, 2012

could we all just agree that "code freeze" is a lousy metaphor and move on? maybe call it the "increasingly terrified of change" phase.
— Kent Beck (@KentBeck) July 26, 2012

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Craig Smith

Australian Agile Coach & IT Professional

Renee Troughton

Episode 66: Agile Coaching with Lyssa Adkins and Michael Spayd

Episode 58: Don’t Drink and Podcast!

Episode 57: No, No, Noooo!

Episode 56: Scrum Australia plus a Hint of Peas & Apples

Episode 55: YOW! 2012 with Zach Holman

Episode 53: Merry Xmas Mumbles

Episode 52: YOW! 2012 Retrospectives with Aino Vonge Corry

Episode 50: YOW! 2012 Day 1 Wrap Up

Episode 49: Merry Manifesto Madness with Alistair Cockburn

Episode 44: Typhoid Tony

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